Fellow registered Democrats: Politicians, insiders and outsiders, are in full swing. Join the swing with your sensibilities at your March 1 caucus – your last chance to be formally counted for your presidential candidate on the November ballot, hopefully for Hillary Clinton. Delight Durango High newspaper editor Seth Marvin-Vanderryn by proving him wrong. I applaud him for writing about our appallingly low voter turnout. (Opinion, Herald, Feb. 21)
I will caucus for Clinton, an experienced pragmatist, to lead us in tenuous times. Sen. Sanders has been able to stir up his supporters for revolution, but he is not the best one to govern with respect, practiced diplomacy, compromise and, at the same time, hold a firm stance in our tumultuous world.
Clinton has decades of broad national and international experience and relationship building. She has a record of reaching across the aisle at home and defeating gridlock. Clinton’s decades of advocacy for children, health care coverage, equal rights and urgent scientific attention to planetary concerns put her in good standing for a breadth of issues. She has been scrutinized and has stood strong, holding her ground.
Clinton is the candidate to move at an effective, schooled pace for transition, as opposed to Sander’s unrealistic revolution, especially if working with a Republican majority in the House and Senate. We couldn’t ask for a more qualified candidate to implement vision, management and progress from the helm – ready to hit the ground running.
Exercise your precious right to caucus, check in at 6:30 p.m. Find your location at www.laplatadems.org. Volunteer to fill the caucus rooms, bring a friend, drive an elderly neighbor. Together we can make history. Let’s prove young Marvin-Vanderryn wrong!
Kathleen Adams
Durango
